﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOI'LI—SCUDDER. 
  271 
  

  

  feebly 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  vertex 
  very 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  not 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  tlie 
  ])ronotum, 
  the 
  iuterspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  lialf 
  

   as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  

   auteunal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  moderately 
  declivent, 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  very 
  

   feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  (female) 
  snlcate 
  tliroughont; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  about 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  subequal, 
  percurrent, 
  ])lane 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  convex 
  (female) 
  above, 
  the 
  puneta 
  biseriatelj' 
  disposed, 
  feebly 
  

   sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus; 
  eyes 
  not 
  large 
  nor 
  prominent, 
  barely 
  

   exceeding 
  in 
  length 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  ferru- 
  

   ginous, 
  increasingly 
  infuscated 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  nearly 
  three 
  louiths 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  one 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Prono- 
  

   tum 
  short, 
  regularly 
  and 
  noticeably 
  narrowing 
  from 
  behind 
  forward 
  by 
  

   the 
  gradual 
  constriction 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  portion, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  being 
  

   steeply 
  and 
  obliquely 
  declivent 
  on 
  the 
  prozoua, 
  vertical 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  

   separated 
  from 
  the 
  nearly 
  plane 
  disk 
  by 
  a 
  tolerably 
  sharp 
  but 
  rounded 
  

   angle; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  sharp 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  indistinct 
  

   and 
  blunt 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  subobsolete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci; 
  front 
  margin 
  

   faintly 
  convex, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded; 
  prozona 
  

   darker 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  than 
  the 
  metazona, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  furnished 
  

   with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band, 
  the 
  disk 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   transverse 
  (female), 
  scarcely 
  (male) 
  or 
  not 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   subruguloso 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  

   appressed 
  couico-cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  retrorse 
  (male) 
  or 
  short, 
  stout, 
  

   strongly 
  appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  suberect 
  (female); 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  feebly 
  transverse, 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  

   themselves 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  Tegmina 
  attaining 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  tapering, 
  well 
  rounded 
  apically, 
  ruddy 
  fus- 
  

   cous, 
  with 
  feeblest 
  possible 
  sparse 
  maculation 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area; 
  

   wings 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  pellucid, 
  with 
  apically 
  fuscous 
  veins. 
  Fore 
  

   temora 
  of 
  male 
  scarcely 
  tnmescent; 
  hind 
  femora 
  dull 
  ferruginous, 
  

   broadly 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  confluent 
  

   on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red, 
  the 
  spines 
  

   black 
  throughout, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extrem- 
  

   ity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  ui)turned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  long 
  trian- 
  

   gular, 
  the 
  apex 
  acutangulate, 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  sides 
  turned 
  upward 
  

   and 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  contracted, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  deep, 
  triangular 
  sulcus 
  in 
  

   the 
  basal 
  half, 
  bounded 
  by 
  high 
  but 
  rounded 
  walls 
  which 
  unite 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  adjacent, 
  parallel, 
  

   slender, 
  tapering, 
  acuminate, 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  fingers, 
  nearly 
  reach- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  feebl}' 
  falciform, 
  tapering 
  

   a 
  little 
  in 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  the 
  tip 
  a 
  little 
  produced 
  but 
  rounded, 
  

   the 
  outer 
  surface 
  plane 
  and 
  rather 
  coarsely 
  punctate, 
  not 
  attaining 
  the 
  

   tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  but 
  con- 
  

   siderably 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  apically 
  elevated 
  and 
  prolonged, 
  the 
  

   apical 
  margin 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  subtransverse, 
  and 
  entire. 
  

   Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  IS 
  mm., 
  female, 
  I'i 
  mm.; 
  anteunic, 
  male, 
  7.5 
  

  

  